The National Forum for Social Security (FNPS) was the main happening occurred in 2007 for people interested on this subject. Long term forecasts for the General Regime of Social Security (RGPS), produced by the Secretariat for Social Security Policies (SPS/MPS), were strongly debated during the...

A realização do Fórum Nacional de Previdência Social (FNPS) em 2007 foi o principal fato para aqueles que acompanham a área de previdência social no país. As projeções de longo prazo para a arrecadação, as despesas e o resultado do Regime Geral de Previdência Social (RGPS),...

The objectives of this paper are i) to assess the recent changes in the "actuarial factor" and their distributive and financial impacts in the short and long term. The actuarial factor was created in 1999 to adjust the individual benefit level according to age, time of contribution and life...

The objectives of this paper are i) to assess the recent changes in the "actuarial factor" and their distributive and financial impacts in the short and long term. The actuarial factor was created in 1999 to adjust the individual benefit level according to age, time of contribution and life...

The primary aim of the study is to provide updated estimates of the financing gap to attain universal coverage for social protection floors. This estimation encompasses 133 low- and middle-income countries, and includes five income security guarantees (for children, persons with severe...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses. @This paper explores whether there...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the main gender impacts generated by the recent Brazilian pension reform. The authors chose to focus attention on the two main rule alterations in the major pension regime (the RGPS administered by INSS): 1) the new benefit calculation formula, and 2) the...

Despite labour market informality, Brazil has reached a remarkable benefit coverage among the elderly over the last decades. This coverage extension is, to a large extent, due to two flat-rate pension programmes not requiring individual contribution. The rural scheme, with nearly 7 million...

The study evaluates the performance of the National Social Insurance Council (Conselho Nacional de Previdência Social - CNPS) over the 1990s. The CNPS was created in 1992 to allow for the co-participation of workers, employers and retirees in governing social security in Brazil. The evaluation...

This exploratory study presents the main results of research on: This exploratory study presents: (a) the possible contributions of corporate social responsibility to the extension of social security from a conceptual point of view; (b) the state of research on the topic and an analysis of the...